Race to the Middle Doesn't Seem to Include the Right

Updated May 15, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET

In "America's Race to the Middle" (page one, May 10) you fail to distinguish between inspirational words of "bringing people together" and actual policy-position deeds that upset the core constituency of one's political party.

There is no mistaking John McCain's affinity for positions that anger the conservative wing of the Republican Party. From comprehensive immigration reform to progressive "Teddy Roosevelt environmentalism" to campaign-finance reform to tax-cut opposition to populist...